Ukrainian troops have been using British Challenger 2 tanks inside Russia as part of the offensive in the Kursk Oblast, Sky News reported on Thursday.
The report came a day after the UK Defense Ministry confirmed that Ukraine was allowed to use British weapons inside the Russian mainland.
Former British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that he gave Ukraine permission to use British-provided weapons inside Russia during his time in office. He said the only exception was for the Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles.
The use of British and other NATO-provided weapons inside Russia marks a significant escalation of the proxy war. Earlier this year, Moscow warned that Russian forces could target British military installations in response to British weapons being used in attacks on Russian territory.
“Any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond could be a response to Ukrainian strikes with the use of British weapons on the territory of Russia,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in May.
The US is also allowing Ukraine to use its weapons in the Kursk offensive. President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to strike Russian territory with US weapons at the end of May following Russia’s renewed assault on Kharkiv.
The US maintains that Ukraine cannot use US weapons for “long-range” strikes, but it hasn’t defined a limit. Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi claimed on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had penetrated 21 miles into Russian territory.
Martyanov already shows a couple of them burning…
We All Remember This…
… you know, British "tank commander".
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/08/we-all-remember-this.html
Thank you for such detailed accounts about such weapons….
Always boggles the mind, doesn’t it?!
How many ways, we have to potentially destroy each other?!
One may well wonder how many of those world-class British tanks will make it out of Russian territory under their own power? My guess is close to, or equal to, zero.
Once encircled, it’ll. be like shooting a fish in a barrel. But for now, it acts as a great PR for Russia to recruits more for the years ahead.
Russia is down bad with the yapping
When you hear silence from the other side after you have killed their people and caused damage to their country. Wait for it. For they are prepping a response. That holds true in Russia and Iran. The severity of that response may be devastating to those who struck first.
In the last week, Russia has destroyed NATO equipment worth tens of billions of dollars. (HIMARS, Patriot systems, radars, and munitions dumps) Can you just imagine how excited a Russian drone operator would get if he discovered a Challenger?